Ezekiel 27:7
Of embroidered fine linen from Egypt they made your sail, which served as your banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah they made your awning.
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Note blue…: or, purple and scarlet
Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.
Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- linen
- 1 Kings 10:28; Proverbs 7:16; Isaiah 19:9
- blue and purple
- or, purple and scarlet.
- Exodus 25:4; Jeremiah 10:9
- Elishah
- Elis, part of the Peloponnesus, extending along the western coast of Arcadia, north of Messenia, and south of Achaia.
- Genesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:7